What provides the background music to your code?

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by septerr • 14 years ago

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What do you listen to while furiously hacking away? Talk shows? Podcasts? Techno? Trance? Particular song(s) on repeat? Pop? Sports? A Prairie Home Companion(!!!)?

joslin01• 14 years ago

RainyMood -- http://www.rainymood.com/ Electronic techno (The Field), dubstep (Burial), ambient or solo piano (Pandora is good for these)

Combining rain with any of those goes very well together actually.

septerr6• 14 years ago

The rain thing is cool! (although the website sucks :-|)

tnorthcutt• 14 years ago

Lots of different music. Preferably something with a strong beat, and not something with overly strong vocals. I've been listening to the TRON Legacy soundtrack lately.

gregorym• 14 years ago

http://stereomood.com/

septerr6• 14 years ago

That's kinda neat. Music for any occasion!

traxtech• 14 years ago

Sadly, music keeps me unfocused; so the silence it is.

septerr6• 14 years ago

Radical~

ammmir• 14 years ago

mostly trance podcasts or live streams.

~130 bpm seems like a good work groove for me during the day. solarstone's solaris international podcast is more chilled, perfect for late-night coding, so i try to save them up.

i actually enjoy a little bit of commentary between tracks in a podcast, since it's usually a continuous mix anyway.

septerr6• 14 years ago

Trance seems to be the developers' music of choice. Solarstone is nice. Have you listened to Trance Around the World - http://www.trancearoundtheworld.com/ ? Discovered them tx to another hacker.

bcn• 14 years ago

Music: Soundcloud FTW! http://soundcloud.com/dj-robert-rankin & http://soundcloud.com/mungoshifi

Talk: www.youtube.com/show/thisweekinstartups

septerr6• 14 years ago

Thisweekinstartups sounds interesting!

dirkdeman• 14 years ago

Anything from Armin van Buren, Deadmau5 and David Guetta to Heart, CCR, Led Zep or Mike Snow. As long as I keep the volume down I'm OK.

shortfold• 14 years ago

progressive psytrance, ranging from 135-140bpm depending on my mood / time of day

ohashi• 14 years ago

lots of electronic music - I find I don't listen to the words (if there are any) and just enjoy the noise in the background.

Classical music also works well for the same reasons.

septerr6• 14 years ago

Are podcasts dead? I wonder. I haven't subscribed to one in couple years.

What provides the background music to your code?

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